Israel will slap the New York Times with a lawsuit over a recent “hideous and distorted” article that accused Israeli soldiers and their dogs of raping Palestinian prisoners, officials said Thursday. The Jewish state announced the legal action just days after the so-called Newspaper of Record published a column, penned by Nicholas Kristof, that detailed the alleged horrific widespread rape of Palestinians at the hands of Israeli prison guards and soldiers. Columnist Nicholas Kristof penned the incendiary New York Times article. Getty Images for Concordia Summit “Following the publication by Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times of one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel in the modern press, which also received the backing of the newspaper, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar have instructed the initiation of a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry said.…